University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Career Development Center

www.uwm.edu/Dept/CDC
Mellencamp 128 • 414-229-4486

Which themes best represent your interests?

See a list of careers that match your top themes at
www.nycareerzone.org/graphic/assessment/index.jsp
Portfolio Section: Interests, Values, & Skills

REALISTIC INVESTIGATIVE ARTISTIC SOCIAL ENTERPRISING CONVENTIONAL

LIKE 1. Fixing, building, and 1. Collecting and 1. Self-expression, 1. Foster relationships 1. Speaking/presentations 1. Attending to &
AND/OR repairing interpreting imagination, freedom, through caring, 2. Motivating, patience with details/
GOOD AT 2. Working with data/theories creativity, and listening, nurturing, influencing, organization/accuracy
equipment, hand tools, 2. Focus on thinking and innovative design helping, guiding, and persuading, and selling 2. Organizing procedures,
or precision or large inquiring orientation 2. Painting, writing, facilitating ideas/services/products projects, and people
machinery 3. Scientific or laboratory acting, performing 2. Interacting with people 3. Interacting with people 3. Managing, tracking,
3. Mechanical abilities work musically, sculpting, through teaching, through leading, reporting, and
photography, etc explaining, leading, training, directing, evaluating
4. Activities that are 4. Conducting research directing, and training
hands-on or require and analyses 3. Interpreting and and explaining data/projects/info, etc.
physical strength expressing perceptions 3. Motivating and sharing 4. Managing people, 4. Working within a
5. Science, math, and and meaningful of growth and healing
technical writing projects and groups chain of command and
messages of others with set expectations
5. Focus on and develop
organizational goals

WORK Manufacturing, mining, Laboratories, Museums, art studios, Social service agencies, Government/political Business/administrative
SETTINGS construction, engineering universities, medical libraries, galleries, public schools, religious organizations, corporations, offices, financial
& transportation. Casual facilities, and computer relations, advertising, and organizations, medical and entrepreneurial. organizations, and
dress. Organizations with industries. Organizations interior decorating firms. and health care facilities. Positions representing military. Positions where
clear lines of authority that allow freedom in Organizations allowing seats of power, finance, attention to detail,
and expectations. (e.g., work styles, invention, creativity, flexibility, and authority, and influence. organization, and quality
armed forces) and creativity. freedom in work styles. are valued.

TYPICAL Activities completed Activities with scientific, Participating in or Activities with a focus on Activities that allow Activities with practical
HOBBIES outdoors, with physical mathematical, or attending events that sharing, nurturing, and leadership, competition, purposes, organized
challenges, or using tools experimental components include art, photography, relating to others (making group management, and steps, or require assembly
and equipment (building, (chess, sailing, reading, music, dance, drama, etc. social contributions, team work (sports, clubs of parts or pieces (home
repairing, hunting, rock scuba diving, computers, community service work, and organizations, improvement projects,
climbing, racing, etc.) nature, environment, etc.) interacting with children political activism, model building, puzzles,
and animals, parties, etc.) entertaining, etc.) scrapbooking, etc.)